When Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini led Iran’s Islamic Revolution in 1979, posters went up across the country depicting a good Islamic family, with a mother, father, and seven children. He closed the shah’s family planning clinics, reduced the age of marriage for girls to coincide with the onset of puberty, legalized polygamy, and raised the cost of birth control to be unaffordable for the vast majority of society. In just a few years, the average Iranian family increased to seven children.
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